State Police: 23 hurt in holiday crashes

Published 10:17 pm, Friday, November 23, 2012

HARTFORD -- Connecticut State Police say 23 highway-related injuries have been reported so far in the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Police say they investigated 178 accidents as of Thursday night, made 742 speeding arrests, 27 DUI arrests and issued 1,455 citations for other hazardous moving violations such as tailgating, driving while talking on a hand-held cellphone and changing lanes unsafely.

No fatalities were reported.

Troopers are supplementing the patrol with more officers over the holiday weekend that began at midnight Wednesday and ends at midnight Sunday. Sobriety checkpoints and targeted DUI patrols will be in place over the weekend.